The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.
True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!
Sometimes surviving means compromise.
People will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
Love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
